Nick is a London-based partner in the firm’s European antitrust, competition and trade law practice.
Nick has particular expertise in the financial services sphere, having advised clients on some of the biggest and most complex global antitrust investigations into the sector since the Financial Crisis in 2008, and having assumed a temporary role as Global Head of Competition in a major investment and retail bank in 2018.
More generally, Nick has extensive experience of advising clients on a wide range of issues across many industries, focussing on securing merger clearances for cross-border M&A transactions and joint ventures, providing guidance on alliances and co-operation arrangements and distribution networks, and defending companies in international and domestic cartel investigations and dominance/monopolisation inquiries.
As well as being recognised as a leading practitioner for EU and UK competition law matters, Nick’s practice draws heavily on Asian competition law, having been based in, and worked extensively in, Beijing, Hong Kong and Tokyo during the past decade. Nick has also worked in the firm’s Brussels office.
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- Advising Air China on the formation of its air cargo airline joint venture with Cathay Pacific Airways, which involved co-ordination of Chinese and European merger clearance applications.
- Advising Diageo on its acquisition of Chinese spirits manufacturer Sichuan Chengdu Quanxing Group, which involved novel issues and required complex solutions to achieve Chinese merger clearance.
- Advising Geely Auto on its acquisition of Volvo Cars, including the co-ordination of its global merger filings for that transaction – one of the first very large private outbound deals from China into Europe.
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